2025-05-26 WWE RAW - REVIEW
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2025 Malapert Smark Podcast Review System (Rev2):
🤯 - Mind Completely Blown!!! [+10]
🔥 - This Was Fire!! [+5]
❤️ - Loved It! [+3]
👍👍 - REALLY Liked It! [+2]
👍 - Liked It [+1]
½ - Kinda Liked It [+0.5]
👊 - Indifferent [0]
👎 - Didn’t Like it [-1]
👎👎 - Really Didn’t Like It [-2]
🤬- Hated It [-3]
🤮 - Made Me Sick [-5]
🙋♂️- Chris Jericho Bad [-10]
Or any combination of the like…
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STORYLINES:
(1) Mixed Success for Rollins' stable on the night... rollins qualifies for MITB but gets laid out to end the show…
👉Subplots:
(B) Jey Uso encourages Sami to be smart in battle w/ Rollins' stable...
(C) Rollins' stable interfere in Seth's MITB qualifier, helping him get the win (See Storyline #2D)...
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️TheMalapertSmark: I gotta admit, i am pretty bored watching Rollins’ promos. he just doesn’t have the aura they are portraying him to have and that would merit this special attention…
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(2) Men's MITB… Penta & Rollins qualify…
👉Subplots:
(A) Vikingo gets involved in MITB qualifier, costing Gable ahead of their match at WORLDS COLLIDE...
(B) Penta qualifies for MITB, defeating Gable & Dragon Lee in 3 Way...
(C) Seth qualifies for MITB, winning his 3 Way against Finn & Dom... Seth's stable take Sami out of the match as Jey Uso tries to help Sami... Dom helping Finn backfires leading to Seth's victory...
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️TheMalapertSmark: kinda suck to have these 3 Way NO DQ rules in these matches… Vikingo had no trouble just walking in and ruining it for Gable and same w/ Rollins’ stable… in the end i don’t mind either Penta or Rollins in the match, both make for interesting angles…
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(3) Finn asks JD to hold off on asking for matches, wants to focus on MITB...
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - 👎
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️TheMalapertSmark: I would suppose JD is trying to get them back into that world tag title scene…👎 because i could barely hear them talking…
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(4) Liv is back from her movie shoot...
👉Subplots:
(A) Liv catches Roxanne massaging Dom and giving him chicken nuggets…
(B) Liv wants to get into MITB... will address Roxanne later...
(C) Liv runs into Iyo backstage, vows to win MITB and cash in on Iyo... this leads to Kairi challenging Liv...
(D) Roxanne tries to help Liv but the distraction ends up costing Liv against Kairi Sane...
(E) Liv is upset but doesn't totally blame Roxanne, saying Raquel “was the veteran and should have known better”...
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️TheMalapertSmark: Didnt go how i thought it would go. i like that liv didn’t freak out. very mature of her. i’m sure she will talk to roxanne at some point. she should really accept her into the stable and she could be unstoppable….. also, i guess i see an outside chance of a Roxanne taking Dominik away and starting a feud w/ Liv. it could be an easy way to make Roxanne…
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(5) Rusev takes care of business against Tazawa but new opponent arises…
👉Subplots:
(B) Sheamus steps up to end Rusev's post match attack on Tazawa... Rusev backs off...
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️TheMalapertSmark: i guess it’s the best they could come up w/ for Rusev. battle of midcard giants. why not?…
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(6) New Day retains world tag titles in 3 Way…
👉Subplots:
(B) New Day swerve American Made, breaking alliance and stealing the pin pulling the tights... New Day retain world tag titles over American Made & War Raiders in 3 Way...
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️TheMalapertSmark: Kinda funny. predictable, but still funny. really made American Made look like goofs tho… btw, that comedian they keep bringing in, i’m sure he’s a funny guy but the segments he’s in are so cringe bad… i hope some kid somewhere is getting a kick out of him because that seems like the only people who could go for it…
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(7) Jey Uso addressing of MITB tag match interrupted by Gunther... Gunther claims Jey won't be a great champion because he is too selfless and isn't focusing on the world title... Jey says he isn't overlooking Gunther amid his other feuds...
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️TheMalapertSmark: ehh. im getting a little weary of these long Gunther speeches. this one didn’t really have the bite that he usually has. i think at this point he doesn’t really have the right to talk after tapping out at Mania. just go out there and do it…
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(8) Rhea puts major champions on notice w/ promo ahead of MITB...
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️TheMalapertSmark: slightly unnecessary promo. didn’t mind it. but didn’t need it on the show either… we all know she’s in mitb… there’ll be more time for promos on the mitb preshow. this coulda been on that…
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(9) All kindsa issues for Chad Gable on heels of Vikingo costing him MITB qualifier...
👉Subplots:
(B) ...Has to get a message from El Grande Americano to the GM....
(C) ...Has to deal w/ El Hijo Del Vikingo...
(D) ...AND AJ Styles, who is mad about Gable costing him and Penta their tag match...
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️TheMalapertSmark: 😆. ok. this was funny… still not getting the El Grande Americano thing at all. but this segment alone was pretty amusing. he didn’t even go after vikingo after what happened. just a hothead i guess… i wish they would give his character something to legitimize him, but it doesn’t seem like they want to. just sucks for American Made, who aren’t getting anything good outta this…
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(10) Lyra promises to hurt Becky at MITB... Becky claims she was done w/ Lyra before the attack... PROMO BATTLE ensues... Becky won't challenge Lyra again if she loses...
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️TheMalapertSmark: these two just didn’t land on this main roster feud. worked a lot better in nxt, which is usually how it goes. idk about lyra’s promo. idk about the promo battle. none of this worked. neither of them won the crowd or myself…
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(11) Karrion Kross continues to nag Sami Zayn, and really gets under his skin... Tells Sami he should have escaped to Smackdown and that he will never be champion.. Sami promises to deal w/ him later...
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
TheMalapertSmark - 👍
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️TheMalapertSmark: i kinda felt like kross might wanna finally jump in the ring for the main event, since Sami everyone would be there, but i guess he just likes creepily hanging around in the back… still, i’ll give this a 👍 because i root for them actually getting something going w/ Kross.
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